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h4xx0r3d
My admin login for this blog either got corrupted or was intentionally changed by some script kiddie, so I need to purge everything and build it up again. My last backup is recent, from New Years Eve of last year (thank Omniscient Being of Choice that I had nothing else to do that day). I’ll be losing all of my posts from January and February, but I don’t mind so much… This blog’s feed gets picked up by Facebook, Twitter, and Buzz, so when I import the old posts, it might avalanche.. or not. Apologies in advance. UPDATE: Maybe I didn’t lose anything except, strangely, the banner – I have…
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sticky rice babies
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Clapping Music Interlude
Sometime in the future, I will open a bar. Bands will be welcomed to play live, in a rotating fashion. If a certain song or band gets tiresome, a projector screen will drop in front of the stage and this video will be played until the next band comes on.
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windows 7 gen_ml.dll error with KMPlayer
gen_ml.dll (media library winamp plugin) problem is a common issue in Windows Vista/Windows 7. Playback seemed to work for me, but startup was extremely slow and the screen froze for ten seconds. To avoid it you can do one of the following: Delete gen_ml.dll from plugins folder if you don’t need it (Recommended) (I tried renaming the file, but it still caused problems) Install KMP in a folder with admin rights. Run KMP with admin rights (right click on file -> properties) Disable UAC in Windows Vista (not recommended) Via: Access Violation on startup (gen_ml.dll)
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..random
Mina shook her head in serious disagreement 17 times in a row yesterday – I was asking about people she loves; apparently she just hates everyone, because by the time I got to the end I had run out of people she knows by name and had started naming animals. — Max just told his mother to leave him alone and go be with daddy. — I got an e-mail from a distant relative in Kyushu who runs a beauty salon that T, Adam, Inaba and I visited 12 (?) years ago when we went to visit my cousins Kana and Aya in Saga Prefecture (Saga was where my grandfather…
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Spicy Maple Links of Destruction 2/11/11
Offered mostly without comment because I’m still chewing on them: The last Japanese man remaining in Kazakhstan A Kafkian tale of the plight of a Japanese POW in the Soviet Union An Evening with J. D. Salinger Of course he’s crazy, that’s why his best works ring so true. Educating B Students My question is: Where have all the A students gone? The New Atheists’ Narrow Worldview If it weren’t for the crazy shit based in monkey-ass superstition, religion wouldn’t be half as entertaining… And in that regard, I think of animistic religions as more honest than others. And finally: Alternate Universe Movie Posters So cool.
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Elephant Saddlebags
Personally, I’d pimp mine out with spinners and a five foot tall rear spoiler, but to each his own I say.
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Samsung Kies Software
Is the worst piece of shit you ever did see. It’s super slow, bloated, and looks like the retarded monkey who decided on the design gave the job to a colorblind Amiga programmer. Actually, I’ve never used any mobile phone/digicam/video cam maker’s software that was even close to being acceptable, but this Kies crap bundled with my Samsung Galaxy 5 is just laughably bad. Time to start up on my old desktop rig: FOUR TIMES longer than PhotoShop CS3. This is just fucking unacceptable, shitty code. Shame on you, Samsung.
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Karelia / Alone in the Wilderness
It was nice being able to sleep in a tent for a few nights this past year; I like camping and look forward to taking Max and Mina… There are a couple of nice outdoors themed links I’ve been wanting to post, so: Unforgettable Vacation In Karelia – Nice photo set from Finland or Russia, can’t tell which. (It’s hosted on English Russia, so watch for pop-ups.) — Then there’s this clip from a film called Alone in the Wilderness: This kind of stuff just fascinates me – I often wonder if I’d be able to handle a month or two of solitude. The guy’s homepage is here. I’m acquiring…
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Max and Mina’s Tribute to the White Stripes
“The White Stripes belong to you now and you can do with it whatever you want. The beauty of art and music is that it can last forever if people want it to. Thank you for sharing this experience. Your involvement will never be lost on us and we are truly grateful.” –The White Stripes, February 2, 2011 And so: We did this back in August of last year. I was never a huge White Stripes fan, but the way they are ending is inspiring. I sure wish my favorite bands had gone out like this.
